A ’50s British comedy about bent turf accountants? With a character called Flash Harry? That’ll be Sid James, then. Also on hand...
As a change from Norman Z MacLeod, the Marx Brothers, for the first time, insisted on picking their own director, and went...
We’ve never forgiven this mid-period Disney feature for causing it very real and prolonged childhood trauma with the ‘pink elephants’ sequence (the...
Any film that tries to imbue the line, “I am the Shadout Mapes…[dramatic Pinteresque pause]…the housekeeper!” with meaning doesn’t really deserve to...
We still say the best thing Julien Temple ever did was his first short film, which did nothing more high-falutin’ than cobble...
Also-also-ran ’50s sci-fi which has attained a kind of kitsch immortality due to a) having an amusingly meat-and-potatoes title, and b) Ray...
Try to ignore Peter Lawford and enjoy Judy Garland and Fred Astaire. ’40s MGM musicals aren’t really our bag but you can’t...
Never mind smuggling coke from Phil Spector, there are blatant scenes of irresponsible ‘standing up on the saddle’ in this well-worn road...
It may sound like a line of dialogue for Glyn Edwards in Minder, but is instead a Spencer Tracy starring adaptation of...
We recall getting a pencil case (one of those plastic, compartmentalised ones with a built in tape measure) seemingly based around this...
Kurt Russell managed to top even his ground-breaking portrayal of Dexter Riley in The Strongest Man In The World and made such...
Lush cinematography, marvellous acting (in particular from Sylvia Kristel) and genuinely erotic scenes tastefully directed… Just Jaeckin! It’s the same badly dubbed,...
Inexplicably often lauded as a classic (presumably on the grounds that any ’80s sci-fi film that isn’t full of space battles must...
Experimental(ish) short(ish) film made for NBC telly but released over here in your actual fleapits. David Warner buys his fiancée and engagement...
First – a-ha-hand best! – of Jim Varney’s slapstick simpleton cycle (although Ernest Goes To Jail does have some fantastic moments, “I...
Still holding out well after all these years, is Snake Plisken sent out by Lee ‘Nimble’ Van Cleef to save President Donald...
Caesar and pals turn up in the past, our present which is of course now the past for all groups concerned but...
Stallone in goal? How likely is it that any of the players would’ve given a toss that they might have won that...
Eskimo Nell stands head and shoulders over its tit-'n'-bum cousins.
Marty Feldman's wardrobe supplied by Mr Fish.
Clint Eastwood may be the name above the title, but it’s Ruth Gordon as Ma and the legendary Black Widows that are...
Pre-Blazing Saddles western spoof (yep, another one) with John ‘Gomez’ Astin as the titular bandit, being pursued by Mickey Rooney and the...
Good Old Anthony Shaffer, of Wicker Man and Sleuth fame, led a sort of double career-life as apart, from those cultish gems,...
A sort of ’60s proto-Wicker Man set-up, in which Franch grandee David Niven tries to save his failing vineyard with a little...
A Ken ‘no, you’re meant to hold the cork with a tea towel and twist the bottle… oh, give it here’ Follett...
OK-ish Maltese thriller with Mark Lester copping it after witnessing the assassination of an ambassador, and having to bring big sis Susan...
First out of the traps, and probably the most famous of the bunch, but still a bit of a flop, with Ray...
Undoubtedly the most revered of tonight’s uselessly scheduled triple bill, in which Roger Corman finally gets his finger out and does Poe...
Epic chronicling of the last days of Marcus A (and not, y’know, *really* the fall of the Roman Empire at all), in...
“A tale of urban reality”. It’s not like this round my bit of urban. Michael ‘nepotism’ Douglas stars as either a victim...
A good old fashioned tale of, well, falling in love. Nothing much else happens in this movie – in fact nothing much...
Alan Parker’s slightly *too* zeitgeisty stage school fluff comes round again, and of course we prefer the series – OK, it was...
Kevin Costner, Jason Robards’ son, the ‘scallywag’ character off of The Breakfast Club, and er, Jesse off of Nutriaman – the Copasaw...
One of the last of the “golden era” soft-porn romps to feature past-it actors in desultory supporting roles, with Oliver Reed, Wilfrid...
This demented costume romp combined spy and superhero in the form of Sir Reginald Hoover: suave, pipe-smoking criminologist ensconced in a secret...
Donald ‘Perfectly’ Pleasance and Raquel ‘Legend of Walks Far Woman’ Welch are at cross purposes amongst the stringy antibodies in this inexplicably...
Rather distasteful and utterly unfunny Whoopi Goldberg drugs ‘n’ vice “comedy”, with little of interest on screen unless the sight of such...
Ill-fated attempt at creating a sort of amphibious counterpart to Modesty Blaise
Is there something inherently rubbish about the source material that makes just about every adaptation of the memoirs of this bullshitting Venetian...
The tell-tale director’s name in the title fingers this as one of those late-period bunches of self-indulgent cobblers, to wit two hours...
“Save Ferris!” went the cry. And so we did. Yeah, it’s a little childish and stupid, but then so’s school. Actually, what...
It’s missing an exclamation mark, is the title of this film, along with a luxuriant Edwardian moustache on the upper lip of...
Ropey, ‘troubled’, bizarre-in-the-worst-way last hurrah from Peter Sellers, who plays both Sax Rohmer’s titular mastermind (in latex make-up and corny accent) and...
At the risk of exploding the sitting-on-the-fence-o-meter, we have to say it was, ahem, a bit of a mixed bag, all told.
The film we all hoped would be the last instalment of the Omen series. How wrong we were! Omen IV came some...
Kirk ‘snails’ Douglas is the captain of the Nimitz, a bloody great aircraft carrier which encounters a special effect (a laser light...
Maverick pop-art fantasy director Robert Fuest is let loose on Michael Moorcock's time-tripping novel of swinging psychosexual splother.
Clint steals Russian plane! Plane plugs into Clint’s brain! Plane looks extremely unconvincing in flight. But note how many British actors are...
‘Raaay! Lionel ‘Railway Children’ Jeffries invents Cavorite, enabling him to leisurely float to the moon in his conservatory, and get captured by...
Oh, the hype this generated at the time of its release, as you may recall. Isn’t Kevin Kline funny! No. Isn’t the...
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